1. 2026
   Sprint close — first playable night street Added

   YAKO now has a coherent PS1 walking loop you can actually step into:

   • First-person mouse look + WASD movement relative to facing.
   • PSX post FX (320×240, band dithering, vertex snap) with tunable precision_multiplier.
   • Night scene: pixel star sky, cool moon, blue-grey fog, sodium lamp bloom via reusable LampPost.tscn.
   • Full cigarette state machine (carton → smoke → burn out → auto reload) with GPU smoke.
   • Reusable NPC system with typewriter dialogue, white outline, procedural blip voices.
2. Jun
   2026
   The walk begins Started

   Project pitched and scaffolded in Godot 4.6. The creative direction settled: a non-verbal story about a girl who ran away, walking a midnight Japanese street. The name has two halves — the romanised YAKO and the Japanese 夜行 (yako, "night walking").

   • Set up repo (YAKO_Demo_Godot3D) and project config.
   • Authored design notes and a project guide to keep setup reproducible.
   • Targeting a space for Taylor's Mental Wellness Campaign (October 2026).

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